Thread: Post Pictures of Your Everyday Life

I got a job as surveyer for the new overlords, praised be their glory : D This is my new uniform:

European food pr0n

A whole thing of home produced prosciutto


Sausage cooked in tiny bit of water. We just picked this smokes sausage from a butcher and it seemed a bit raw to me. Normally I like it better if it hangs in the "cold room" for a bit to dry out and cure some more. But cooked like this, the flavor is AMAZING


Pork boiled with spices for hours, then ladled into bowls with smoked pork and let set to aspic. Fresh onions, lemon juice and home made red paprika.


Blood pudding. Mmm, just better don't think much about the ingredients : D Plus black bread and homemade pickled cabbage with red pepper.


White sausage. If it was with blood like the pudding, it would be blood sausage. But they didn't have it. This is with rice, spices and some organs.

This was taking last week in the early in the morning.

Radish from the garden.


Old Drawing that I did.

Sorry to Double post,

Spoiler for bird:

Spoiler for PEAS FROM THE GARDEN:

Eclipse 2017 by Darkmatters, on Flickr
The cool thing about an eclipse is, you can see it by looking down at the ground. Notice how every hole in the shadows becomes an image of the partially eclipsed sun, like a crescent moon shape. Only it's actually a crescent sun.
Oh, that's the shadow of a stepladder that's standing beside my porch, in case you were wondering. Lol, just noticed it looks like it's winking!

Eclipse 2017 by Darkmatters, on Flickr
It works on the same principle as a pinhole camera - small holes let light through and form an image of whatever is casting the light. I was going to try to find a piece of cardboard and make a round hole in it but ran out of time - fortunately it works with dappled lighting under trees just as well, and makes for some really nice effects.

Eclipse 2017 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

Eclipse 2017 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

Eclipse 2017 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

Eclipse 2017 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

With everything that seems to go wrong. Don't worry. Here, have a fiasco. I mean a pretzel.

Yes, we had a howling good time!

Coffee and Firewood 01 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

I jimmied my coffee maker so it doesn't give me the nasty plastic toxins - you know, the esters that cause men to develop breasts and all that really nasty stuff. I boil water on the stove and pour it through - it goes straight from stainless steel funnel into the coffee cup. Lol the Mister Coffee is only used as a base to hold the other parts where they need to be.


Coffee and Firewood 03 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

I had a massive tree fall in my back yard a couple of years ago. Took me a long time to figure out what to do about it, but eventually I got myself an electric chainsaw and cut it up and started splitting it into firewood. Still working on that and will be for the rest of the winter probably, since this wood doesn't like to burn unless it's split into what I call matchsticks. Here's one of my big stacks of firewood, in the garage so it doesn't get rained on. You can also see a bunch of matchsticks piled on the shelves in the background.


Coffee and Firewood 02 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

These are the leaf bins I built in the shed recently. Lol the front of it is an old door! These leaves are great for starting fires! Nature provides - we just have to do a lot of work to process things down into useable form.


Coffee and Firewood 04 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

Also in the garage - small bins for sticks, scrap wood and leaves. Now on those really cold nights I don't even need to go out to the shed, just into the attached garage for fire supplies. Sweet!!


Coffee and Firewood 05 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

And finally the last stop - the fireplace. The little white canister is my favorite part - step on the pedal and the top flips open, revealing a plastic bucket full of leaves that can be lifted out and dumped in the fireplace. Behind it is a basket filled with matchsticks. I'm planning to take off the brass front with the glass doors - I think it's ugly and when the doors are closed they block too much heat. I'll replace it with a tri-fold metal screen. All set for a cozy night in front of the fire watching movies!! Or drinking coffee in the morning..

Hmm - can't seem to find "post pictures of your food here", and it looks like people are just doing that in this thread anyway --- Soooooo...


Stir-Fry 01 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

Stir-fry, made with beef liver, brown rice pasta and fresh veggies (forgot the sugar snap peas though - I always forget something when I make stir-fry!! ) With Teriyaki sauce (soy-free coconut aminos-based).


Stir-Fry 02 by Darkmatters, on Flickr

Served up with my favorite utensil, my prized solingen steel spork from Germany. A thing of beauty, and functional - it's 2 utensils in one (I usually cut food with it too, so it's really 3 )

Hm, picture of the day? Let it be view from our villa in Greece yesterday. Not like my everyday view though , I am on a business trip here, next stop is Spanish cost! Looking forward to it!

In Hull, England. The Land of Green Ginger Parade.



Moxie wanted me to take a picture of him when I was trying to take a good picture of the food.
No!! Moxie!! Don't eat me! Nooo! Me no good!! Me no good!!

11-22-17-selfport by Darkmatters, on Flickr

Wake up and looked out the window and saw this strange shape in the sky. I was wondering if anyone out there saw this cloud?

Spoiler for DOVE :

My brother was in the Gulf War when I was younger. Here is a picture of my sister feeding a Dove that came and visited us when he was over there. The Dove disappeared when my brother Mike came home. It was a big thing when I was little, too.

synchroniticites like that are so profound

Thanks, Nebulus!
Old snow covered Windmill. Tree covered in snow. That window, I use to go and hide in there.